Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 2 | ‘ You would n't think it so unexpected if you 'd seen the first nightclub I bought . ’ |
| 3 | Erm I wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turning I think was the answer but there was no reason to say I had problems finding you or I was held up I 'm sorry for that or , or anything , there was no , there was no actual acknowledgement or reason for being late . |
| 4 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 5 | I enjoyed my politico-legal activities and sought to give the best service I could . |
| 6 | A few more boys arrived and I began to realise the terrible blunder I had made . |
| 7 | When I did see the full list I was very scornful — speaking in public ? making a recording ? conducting a committee ? — ME ? |
| 8 | If one of my staff had done the same thing I do believe I 'd have fired him . |
| 9 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 10 | Partly I bad believed for reasons which were extraneous , and I had used the emotional commitment I had found in this to cover for a lack of genuine commitment . |
| 11 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
| 12 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 13 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |